In the worst case this adds less then 128 bytes of code
but on the other hand this makes code organization more clear.
Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6344/
Add support for the LZ4 compression scheme in the ZBOOT decompression
stub, in order to support it we need to:
- select the "lz4" compression tool to compress the vmlinux.bin
payload
- memcpy() is also required for decompress_unlz4.c so we share the
implementation between GZIP, XZ and now LZ4
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5829/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Add support for the XZ compression scheme in the ZBOOT decompression
stub, in order to support it we need to:
- select the "xzkern" compression tool to compress the vmlinux.bin
payload
- link with ashldi3.o for xz_dec_run() to work
- memcpy() is also required for decompress_unxz.c so we share the
implementation between GZIP and XZ
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5818/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
- Remove several outdated comments
- Clearify the definition of zimage_start and zimage_size and the their
usage
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1382/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The necessary changes to the x86 Kconfig and boot/compressed to allow the
use of this new compression method.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/857/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
o Remove the .initrd section. The initrd section was already handled
when vmlinux was linked.
o Discard .MIPS.options, .options, .pdr, .reginfo, .comment and .note
sections. If .MIPS.options is not removed, kernels compiled with gcc
3.4.6 will not boot.
o Clean up the file format.
o Remove several other unneeded sections.
Tested with GCC 3.4.6 and 4.4.1 with and without initrd.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/785/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch helps to generate smaller kernel images for linux-MIPS,
Here is the effect when using lzma:
$ ls -sh vmlinux
7.1M vmlinux
$ ls -sh vmlinuz
1.5M vmlinuz
Have tested the 32bit kernel on Qemu/Malta and 64bit kernel on FuLoong
Mini PC. both of them work well. and also, tested by Alexander Clouter
on an AR7 based Linksys WAG54Gv2, and by Manuel Lauss on an Alchemy
board.
This -v2 version incorporate the feedback from Ralf, and add the
following changes:
1. add .ecoff, .bin, .erec format support
2. only enable it and the debug source code for the machines we tested
3. a dozen of fixups and cleanups
and if you want to enable it for your board, please try to select
SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT for it, and if the board have an 16550 compatible
uart, you can select SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550 directly. and then
sending the relative patches to Ralf.
Tested-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>